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Aerospace Systems Engineering (4900)
| 165 | TOOLS FOR AEROSPACE SYS ENGR | 2 credits |
| Prerequisite: Permission. Corequisite: 3450:149. Computer applications, spreadsheets, CAD software, MATLAB, and introduction to aerospace engineering program and curriculum; outside speakers; project involving design and construction of small RC aircraft. | ||
| 166 | AEROSPACE SYSTEMS PROJECT MGMT | 1 credits |
| Prerequisite: 165. Teamwork and project planning; semester project involving continuation of design and construction of small RC aircraft in conjunction with SAE Aero Design. | ||
| 240 | AEROSPACE SYSTEMS ENGR I | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: 3450:223. An introductory systems course focusing on systems thinking, systems engineering tools, reliability, life-cycle analysis and statistics. | ||
| 320 | AEROSPACE SYSTEMS ENGR II | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: 240, 4600:340. An extended study of systems topics including linear programming, optimization, decision making, critical path scheduling, and verification. | ||
| 336 | AEROSPACE STRUCTURES | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: 4300:202, 3450:335. Basic theory and methods for analysis and design of aerostructures are covered. Topics include torsion, shear flow, buckling, fracture, and fatigue of beams and plates. | ||
| 340 | AVIONICS I | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: 4400:307. Electronics for aircraft applications. Amplifiers, filters, regulators, current sources, buffers, sensor and actuator circuits, transmitters, and receivers. | ||
| 380 | AEROSPACE MATERIALS | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: 3150:151,152, 4300:202 or permission. Theory in science and application of materials for aerospace structures, macroscopic behavior of materials, order and disorder in mechanical behavior, evaluating and quantifying mechanical response. | ||
| 420 | OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN & MGMT | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: 320. An introduction to the area of object-oriented design and management of systems, including abstraction, inheritance, polymorphism, dynamic interactions, hierarchies, patterns, reflection, and distributed objects. | ||
| 440 | AVIONICS II | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: 340, 4600:412. Communication and control for aircraft applications. Fourier analysis, AM and FM principles, modulators demodulators, communication systems. aircraft system dynamics, classical control system principles and applications. | ||
| 450 | AEROSPACE COMPUTATIONS | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: 4300:202, 4600:315, 360, 411 or permission of instructor. Introduction to finite element and finite volume methods in aerospace engineering; fundamental principles of FEM and FVM discussed and illustrated through structural, and aerodynamic applications. | ||
| 460 | AEROSPACE SYSTEM MANUFACTURING | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: 4600:360 or equivalent or permission of instructor. Using computer systems to assist in creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of engineering designs, planning, management and control of manufacturing, CAD software with manufacturing applications. | ||
| 490 | AEROSPACE DESIGN PROJECT | 2 credits |
| Prerequisite: Senior standing or permission. Detailed senior design project. Design, feasibility and cost analysis, final design and implementation; engine, airframe and aerodynamic testing. | ||
| 497 | AEROSPACE HONORS PROJECT | 2 credits |
| Prerequisite: Senior standing in Honors College or permission. Individual creative project in Aerospace Systems, supervised by faculty member of the department. Includes design, feasibility and cost analysis, final design and implementation. | ||
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